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Joss Whedon has called The Godfather Part II his ‘guiding star’ when creating The Avengers: Age of Ultron (Picture: Paramount Pictures)

The Avengers: Age of Ultron director Joss Whedon has been taking inspiration from Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather II.

Whedon described the lauded gangster flick as the ‘guiding star’ that he has been ‘trying to build from’ when working on the follow up to Marvel’s Avengers Assemble.

In an interview with AlloCine, ComicBookMovie.com reports, Joss revealed: ‘A ton has happened in-between and it’s a very different movie [from Part I], but you don’t need any information. It’s there in the film about what’s happened since, what’s different, and why is this a different film; why is it a different kind of structure, and why it is darker.

‘It’s all there, you’re in the vernacular of the first movie and you’re just ready to pick up in this new place, and hopefully that’s what will happen with my movie.’